According to a source, technical fault was detected when plane’s engines were started before a takeoff

MOSCOW, November 3./TASS/. Russia’s Aeroflot flagship carrier has replaced an A321 passenger airliner as it was about to take off from Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport to St. Petersburg because of a technical fault, an airport source has told TASS.

A technical fault was detected when plane’s engines were started before a takeoff at 6:40 am Moscow time, the source said. "Passengers were removed from the plane which was replaced with another airliner," he added.